Clothes-drying apparatus.



No. 663,873. Patented Dec. l8, I900.

. E. F. EDE.

CLOTHES DRYING APPARATUS.

(Applihtion filed Dec. 18, 1899.)

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Patented Dec. [8, I900.

E. F. EDE. CLOTHES DRYING APPARATUS (Application filed Dec. 18 1899.1

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EDGAR F. EDE, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

CLOTHES-DRYING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 663,873, dated December 18, 1900.

Application filed December 18, 1899. Serial No. 740,627. (No model.)

T0 (all whom, it inn/y concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR F. EDE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing and having post-office address at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Drying Apparatus, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a sec tional elevation View on the plane denoted by the dotted line 000:. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation view on the plane denoted by the dotted line y y, the clothes-line omitted. Fig. 4 is a perspective detail of the Windlass, the operating-cords, and the pulleys over which they run.

The object of the improvement is the production of an apparatus whereon to suspend clothes, as for drying in the open air, an apparatus which by preference is located underneath a veranda-roof or the like and adapted to be extended into the open air beyond the roof.

In the accompanying drawings the letter a denotes two rods which may well be called base-rods. They are provided with suitable line-attaching devices which by preference are holes in lateral extensions a on the sides of the base-rods,through which the line on which to hang the clothes may be passed and then crossed from one base-rod to the other. These base-rods are borne in base-rod supports which permit the base-rods to be reciprocated I longitudinally thereon or therein. By preference these base-rod supportsconsist of the pulleys 1), arranged in two seriesone above and one below the rods. These pulleys are journaled in brackets 19, carried by pulley base-boards c. In such case the top and bot tom of the base-rods are beveled and the pulleys are set at a corresponding angle.

The letter (1 denotes a crank for reciprocating the base-rods in both directions. Its shaft carries a pinion d, meshing with the gear d fast on the shaft of which is a drum 6, hearing in its periphery two annular flutes or corrugations e,which are for the reception of the operating-cords of the base-rods. There are two operating-cords for each base-rod, one to move it out and one to move it in.

The

letters fand f denote two such operatingcords, which run over suitable pulleys F to give the base-rod reciprocation in both directions, one being attached at or near each end of a base-rod. The ends of the cords are secured to the drum, and each flute in the drum is for the reception of two cords, one flute containing the cordsf, that are operated to carry the base-rods outward simultaneously, and the other flute containing the cords f, that are operated to draw the base-rods inward simultaneously. By turning the crank in one direction or the other the base-rods are reciprocated in either direction and simultaneously, as desired;

In the practical use of this apparatus the M clothes to be dried may be hung upon the clothes-line 9 while the apparatus is beneath the roof or other covering. Then by turning the crank the base-rods, clothes line, and their load of clothes may be run out or extended into the open air beyond the roof, and when the clothes are dry then by reverse operation of the crank the base-rods, the clothesline, and their load of clothes may be brought back under the roof or other covering.

It will be understood that thebase-rod supports are suitably fastened to suitable supporting parts. The operating-crank and its appurtenancesare designed and intended to be attached to any suitable support. For instance, in the drawings the operating-crank and its appurtenances are shown as attached to the wall of the house. The operating-cords are preferably of wire and stretched taut.

The letter f denotes a pulley for cord f, which is located some distance above the base-rod and by reason thereof acts as a support to the base-rods and their load when the rods are run out.

I claim as my improvement- 1. In combination; two baserods, each beveled on its opposite edges; means for moving these rods longitudinally in parallelism; line-attaching devices on the rods connected by clothes-lines under tension; four series of brackets; and pulleys .journaled therein with their faces so disposed as to engage the beveled edges of the rods; all substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination; two parallel base-rods,

each oppositely beveled on its opposite edges; gage the beveled edges of the rods; all submeans for moving these rods longitudinally stantially as described and for the purpose :0

and simultaneously; line-attaching devices set forth.

8n the rods connected by clothes-lines under EDGAR F. EDE' enslon, twopulley base-boards, two series of brackets on each board; and two series of Witnesses:

pulleys journaled therein with their axes con- W. E. SIMONDS,

verging and their faces so disposed as to en- LUITGARD MORBA. 

